Читать книгу Handicraft Simplified Procedure and Projects in Leather, Celluloid, Metal, Wood, Batik, Rope, Cordage, Yarn, Horsehair, Pottery, Weaving, Stone, Primitive Indian Craft - Lester Griswold - Страница 33

Follow steps 1 to 4 as given on page 50. Dust the surface with gilding powder and apply the gold leaf, preparatory to stamping.

This gilding powder is composed of egg albumen and resin. The heat from the stamping tools applied to the gold leaf penetrates the gilding powder which melts, forming a flux or size at the point of heat application. This insures the gold leaf adhering to the leather only at the desired place. Brush off any surplus gilding powder adhering to the leather.